The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-30
MIsCEILANEOTJS

The Bureau of Statistics reports that the
exports of this country ended May 81 were
valued at S724, $50, 900, against S872, 100, 600
in 1885, and the imports 1856, ,342, 900 and
$3.50, $50, 900 respectively.
ADvICEs from Vancouver, b. c., are that
the British corvette Conquest will start
for Honolulu, having received secret OF
ders from the Foreign Office in London.
IT has turned out that the man held at
Salem, H., for the Railway IN. j. murder
mystery is insane.
FEW days ago at Birmingham, Ala,
Rev. John 7. Maxwell shot and killed John
Ricketts,. The latter was attempting to
outrage the formers wife at the time.
THE Chicago express on the Baltimore &
Ohio was derailed near Oakland, Md, re-
Gently and an unknown tramp killed and
six persons slightly injured.
THE steamer Providence of the Fall
River line ran ashore the other day in Long
Island sound. The passengers were saved.
AN examination of the condition of the
showed that the liabilities would reach the
stupendous sum of $6,O00,000. Harper
seemed to have been guilty of the widest
speculations. The assets Of the bank
were unknown for certain, but were
thought to be small.
DURING q windstorm at Fair Play, Pamela
County, Tex, recently tree was blown
down, crushing the residence of Mrs. Wat
kins and instantly killing her sister, Mrs.
Albert Tile, and her two small children.
NATHAN DAVIS, Probate Judge Of Elk
County, Kan, is reported missing with de-
falcatiOns amounting to s., 600.
THE board of trustees OF Wells Female
College, az Aurora, N. Y, recently voted
that women should have representation in
the board, and Miss Helen F. Smith, the
lady principal, and Mrs. President Cleve-
land, an alumnus, were unanimously chosen
trustees.
THE crops of Asia Minor are in very bad
condition, and panic is threatened. The
Sultan will take steps to give relief
DIR. NJ. A. VERNADo, Justice Of the Peace
Of Tangipahoa parish, Lar was shot and
killed by l.. r. Draughn, o leading citizen,
the other day, because of an Indictment for
carrying weapons.
THE Pacific coast branch of the Ameri-
can shipping and Industrial League has
adopted resolutions favoring bounties for
reviving the merchant marine and calling
for coast defenses.
The other morning five men boarded the
1:15 a. m. Grand Trunk train at Fort
Gratiot, Mich, and held up the passengers.
Several lost what money they had, and one
man lost $3.50. Three Of the supposed rob-
bers were arrested.
THE master plumbers in session in Chi
cago, have adopted new rules for appren-
tices.
A. d. PARENT, defaulting cashier Of a
Montreal bank, has been arrested in Buff
falo and 10000 of the 200 stolen recov-
cred.
STEPHEN PEERE, a shoemaker residing on
the Canadian side of the Niagara river,
crossed the river at the Suspension Bridge
recently, walking upon five-eighths inch
wire cable.
A STEEL stern post for the cruiser Charles
ton has been successfully cast in San Fran
cisco. #G
REPORTS from Otter Tail County, Minn.,
say that grasshoppers are devastati ag
grain fields, and the farmers are threat
ened with the entire destruction Of their
crops. Ha
Or the persons charged with being I'M
plicated in the murder of Colonel Soudekin,
chief Of the Russian police, who was assas-
sinated in 1888, seven have been sentenced
to death and fourteen 10 Siberia
l. H. PoPE, employed in the Chicago
water department, has embezzled between
1900 and $4,000 and disappeared,